Eva Boros - February 11, 1983

Haifa

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You went back to Haifa.

Yeah...

And you...

to the, and then uh, in Mikveh Israel it was also very good because there was a fantastic uh, atmosphere and then the people were wonderful and all of us were the same, in the same boat. All children from the Holocaust and people from Czechoslovakia arrived uh, friends of mine, a cousin of mine. It was people from the school that I never--didn't even know that they survived. You know, all these things and, and I must tell you a terrible thing which is very, very relevant that I had all these years by dreaming. It's not so many years, it just seemed to me that it is a long time from the, from '45 until uh, say uh, '48 was not such a long time. And all--during all these years I was continuously dreaming and, the, the difference in how it was. The independence from coming real down death camp to the independence of your country, the change was unbelievable. So, uh... I forgot my uh, what I want to say by this. What, what was I saying about?

Well, you started by... Well, you went back to Haifa and you were back in Mikveh Israel and you're with friends and you're with people from home and...

Uh, yeah, that Mikveh Israel I wanted just to mention how, what a very good atmosphere and how good we felt. And, and it was just great for us. I mean, the memory as a child, you know, I--the, the good feeling of feeling free and feeling as a human being was un... undescribable on the one hand. On the other hand, there still were going around stories of people that came back that everybody gave up uh, hope. That that's it and they are dead and, uh... Actually uh, all at once somebody appeared out of, from, from Russia or from somewhere uh, that he is still alive and...